Staff Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS trust known for excellence in patient and staff experience. As a Band 5 staff nurse in Respiratory Medicine, you will work in a supportive environment, providing care to patients with respiratory conditions. This role offers the chance to develop your skills within a multidisciplinary team and pursue professional development opportunities. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, the organization values every member of its team and encourages applications from all backgrounds. Experience a fulfilling career where your contributions truly matter and help shape the future of healthcare in the community.

Benefits

Extensive health and well-being programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Access to lease car and home electronics scheme

Professional development training programmes

On-site nursery places

Savings scheme via salary sacrifice

Qualifications

• NMC registered Nurse with a strong understanding of contemporary nursing issues.
• Ability to manage a ward and demonstrate English language proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care as part of the ward team.
• Ensure high clinical standards and accountability as per NMC Code.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Organisational Skills

Teamwork

Basic IT Skills

Education

1st Level live NMC registered Nurse

Qualification for supervision, teaching and assessing students

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a Band 5 staff nurse to work within Respiratory Medicine on Ward 7 at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. If you are a motivated and enthusiastic staff nurse then why not come and join our Team. This post is fully rotational between day and night shift. The post is a full time vacancy but we welcome those seeking part time employment.

Main duties of the job

Respiratory Medicine is currently provided on 2 wards within the hospital, Ward 7 is a 30 bedded unit which meets the needs of adult patients requiring in hospital treatment for a range of respiratory conditions. We work closely with the Respiratory Support Unit which is based on Ward 12. We work as part of an MDT which includes our Respiratory Specialist Nurses and Respiratory Physiotherapists.

We offer successful candidates:

• Friendly and supportive workplace
• Extensive and varied clinical experience and continued professional development

Gaining experience within the respiratory team could enhance progression within the service into leadership roles or a route to other specialist roles, such as respiratory specialist nursing.

You should have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and be able to work effectively as a member of a MDT.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the ward team under the direction of the Ward Manager.
• To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the ward/dept in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.

Person specification

Experience and Knowledge

• Thorough understanding of contemporary nursing issues
• Ensuring the delivery of ‘Compassion in Practice’- Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff Vision and Strategy incorporating the 6C’s
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
• Ability to communicate with MDT
• Ability to work as member of a team
• Ability to manage a ward/department area for a period of a shift
• Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post
• Basic IT Skills

Qualifications

• 1st Level live NMC registered Nurse
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
• PP126/7
• D32/33

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Positive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.